CHAPTER IV
GENERAL CAUSES OF DISEASE
Introduction
Disease is really a fire, the INVISIBLE FIRE
which is THE FATHER, endeavoring to break up the
crystallized conditions which we have gathered in our
bodies. We recognize fever as a fire, but tumors,
cancers, and all other diseases are really also the effect
of that invisible fire, which endeavors to purify the
system and free it from conditions which we have
brought about by breaking the laws of Nature.
Again, we may say that disease is a manifestation
of ignorance, the only sin, and healing is a
demonstration of applied knowledge, which is the only
salvation. Christ is an embodiment of the Wisdom
Principle, and in proportion as the Christ is formed in
us, we attain to health. Therefore, the healer should be
spiritual and endeavor to imbue his patient with high
ideals so that we may eventually learn to conform to
God’s laws which govern the universe, and thus attain
permanent health in future lives as well as now.
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The Old Testament opens with the account of how
man was led astray bythe false light of the Lucifer
Spirits, giving birth to all the sorrow and suffering in
the world; it closes with the promise that the Sun of
Righteousness shall rise, with Healing in its wings.
And in the New Testament we find the Sun of